Four busted for yaba in Chiang Rai
Four men were arrested and more than 1 million yaba pills were seized by police in Chiang Rai on Sunday.
Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung told a press conference yesterday that the pills had a street value of about Bt300 million.
Presenting the four suspects – Chamnong Yeubao, 36, a former drug convict released in 2009, Sombat Srisongsom, 50, Nawasit Sitthichodok, 38, and Naratip Porchae, 33, alongside the 1.094 million pills – Chalerm said the bust was a joint operation of the Special Branch Police, the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, the Provincial Police Region 5 and Chiang Rai Police.
Chamnong and Sombat were stopped in a pickup truck that was hauling the drugs in Mae Chan district on Sunday. Police then went to arrest Nawasit and Naratip at a garage.
Chiang Rai police chief Pol Colonel Wanchai Suwansirikhet said Nawasit was the gang leader and that he had obtained the drugs from a neighbouring country with plans to store them at a livestock farm before their distribution in Nonthaburi and Bangkok’s Bang Na district.
